PLUNDERED BY THE ORC PIRATE (ORCS OF ARDEMERE #2)

He needs her maps. She needs him to stay a monster — because the alternative is falling for him.

Sable draws the truest charts on the Ardemere coast, which is exactly why the most feared orc pirate on the black water wants her aboard his ship. When Drenn and his crew take her vessel, they take her maps, her freedom, and — infuriatingly — her breath.

They call the Black Tide a ghost story. They call her captain a murderer, a monster, the name mothers use to frighten children.But the longer Sable charts the Shattered Isles for him, the clearer it becomes that Drenn isn’t raiding at random.He’s waging a one-orc war against the same shadow conspiracy that framed him for a massacre he didn’t commit and burned his old life to ash.

He’s ruthless. He’s magnetic. He’s the enemy. And when that conspiracy sends a warship to send them both to the bottom, the cartographer and her captor will have to trust each other with far more than their lives.

Some coastlines were never meant to be charted. Some hearts, either.